September Program Lineup

Erik Guzman September 1st, 2010

Friday, September 3 : Dinesh D'Souza - New president of The Kings College in New York City and author of Life After Death: The Evidence

Friday, September 10 : Paul Miller - Author of A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

Friday, September 17 : Jim Henderson & Craig Spinks - Co-authors of The Outsider Interviews: A New Generation Speaks Out on Christianity

Friday, September 24 : Gail Dines - Professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston, … (Read More)

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Why I Went Back to Church

Susan Isaacs August 31st, 2010

I’ve heard my share of “leaving church” stories; and not from immature, fair-weather Christians but from long-term, mature believers – many who had been in leadership. They grew disillusioned by schisms and scandals, they got tired of what felt like a formulaic service, they didn’t feel fed, they didn’t feel needed. So they left – not God, but church. And they’re not alone. Anne Rice is just the latest statistic. As George Barna said in his book, Revolution, people are “leavin … (Read More)

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Marta Szabo & The Guru Looked Good - The MonkCast

Erik Guzman August 30th, 2010

Join me on the MonkCast as I talk with Marta Szabo, author of The Guru Looked Good

The Guru Looked Good details Marta's ten plus years as a staff member in Gurumayi's ashram, the same yogic monastery that Elizabeth Gilbert describes in her bestseller/movie Eat, Pray, Love.

However, the picture painted by Szabo portrays the experience of working intimately with a guru in an international spiritual organization that extravagantly promises happiness, demands service, hypes a guru as God … (Read More)

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Evolving in Monkey Town - Rachel Held Evans on SBE

Erik Guzman August 27th, 2010

Rachel Held Evans grew up in Dayton, Tennessee, a town that epitomized Christian fundamentalism during the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925.

Join Rachel on Steve Brown Etc. as we talk about her crisis of faith and how she came to a place where knowing all the answers isn't as important as asking questions.

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Rachel Held Evans is an award-winning writer and author of Evolving in Monkey Town: H … (Read More)

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Patricia Neal and her angels

Terry Mattingly August 25th, 2010

After her destructive affairs with married men, after the death of her first child, after an accident left her infant son brain-damaged, after the near-fatal strokes that struck months after her 1964 Oscar win for "Hud," actress Patricia Neal faced yet another personal crisis that left her on the verge of collapse.

While her marriage to British writer Roald Dahl, the author of children's classics such as "James and Giant Peach," had long been troubled, Neal was shattered … (Read More)

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"Killing the Indian in the Child" & Forgiveness - Maracle & Boone on SBE

Erik Guzman August 20th, 2010

Could you forgive the people who took your children from you and then reeducated them in an effort to destroy your way of life? Me either, but that's what's happening in Canada.

Join Barry Maracle and Steve Boone as we talk about the Canadian government's effort to "kill the Indian in the child" and the extraordinary forgiveness of Canada's native peoples.

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